On May 9, Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) jointly will host a day-long seminar devoted to standards-development activities and standards compliance. Titled the Cabling and Networking Standards Summit, the event will include reports from members of several subcommittees within the TIA’s TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Engineering Committee.

CABLExpress data center infrastructure architect Rob Jordan will present, “How to Plan for a Structured Cabling Plant to Support Ethernet based Storage with Software Defined Storage (SDS) Equipment," at this year’s Data Center World Global Conference, Texas March 12-15 in San Antonio.

Dave Fredricks, data center infrastructure architect, had his whitepaper, “Meeting High-Speed Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel Light Budgets with at Structured Cabling Design” has been included in the January/February issue of the BISCI magazine ICT Today.

CABLExpress a division of CXtec Inc. that manufactures high-performance cabling and data center infrastructure products and structured cabling solutions, will make a roadshow stop in Denver, with special guest Arista Networks, to discuss everything 400G.